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The most sweeping leadership change in over a decade is underway in China, with almost all the Communist Party's ruling Politburo expected to retire. Party chief Jiang Zemin and five other senior leaders were not elected to an important Party Committee as
World | November 14, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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The Israeli army, backed by tanks and helicopters, entered Gaza City early on Thursday in what Palestinian officials said was the deepest incursion for two years. Witnesses said more than 50 Israeli vehicles entered the As-Sabra neighbourhood, to within 2
World | November 14, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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Iraq said on Wednesday it accepted a new U.N.
World | November 13, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, has given massive backing to two measures aimed at combating terrorism. Under the new rules the bodies of those who die as a result of an anti-terrorist operation will not be released to t
World | November 13, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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The gloom shrouding the euro-zone economy deepened with heavyweight Germany running foul of budget rules and France in danger of doing so. "The recovery is much slower than anticipated," the European Union's executive Commission said in its autumn economi
World | November 13, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Israeli tanks rolled into Nablus and seized total control of the northern West Bank town, arresting at least 30 Palestinians in a stepped up retaliation for a kibbutz shooting which killed five Israelis. The incursion came a day after an Israeli raid on T
World | November 13, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Dismissing the Iraqi parliament's rejection of a UN resolution on disarmament, the United States is awaiting direct word from President Saddam Hussein as Baghdad showed new signs it would eventually accept tough new disarmament terms. "The Iraqi parliamen
World | November 13, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Police opened fire on several thousand students protesting in the Afghan capital against the authorities' handling of an earlier university riot, in which at least one student was killed. AFP reported.
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Iraq's parliament voted unanimously to reject a tough UN disarmament resolution seen as a last chance to avoid war, but agreed to leave the final word to President Saddam Hussein. In a sign that Saddam might override MPs and accept the UN Security Council
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic has been adjourned for the fifth time because of the former Yugoslav president's continuing ill health. Last week there were also no hearings in the case as Mr Milosevic, aged 61, complained of exhaustion and fat
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Indonesian police have named two brothers of a man who admitted involvement in the attack on Bali last month as additional suspects over the bombings. Police said that they were searching for the two men - Ali Imron and Ali Fauzi - after finding a cache o
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Firefighters will continue their national strike on Wednesday after pay talks failed. The union rejected the 11% pay offer recommended by an independent review.
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Israeli tanks and troops have moved into a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm in a hunt for militants who attacked a kibbutz over the weekend. The attack killed five Israelis, including a mother and her two young sons.
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Multiple tornadoes and rains lashed the southeastern United States leaving 35 dead, hundreds missing and entire communities flattened in their wake. "We're right now holding at 17 fatalities with 60 hospitalized, three of them life threatening," said Ceci
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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The Iraqi parliament will vote on a UN Security Council resolution for disarmament, already blasting it as unfair, as Jordan and Saudi Arabia called on Baghdad to comply with the UN measure. Arab League members Jordan and Saudi Arabia stressed to Baghdad
World | November 12, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Russia has said it reserves the right to respond to Sweden's expulsion of two Russian diplomats over alleged espionage at telecoms and defence giant Ericsson. The Swedish decision gave rise to "surprise and regret", the Russian Foreign Ministry said, addi
World | November 11, 2002, Monday // 00:00
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A plane carrying 34 people has crashed into the waters of Manila Bay in the Philippines, shortly after taking off from the city's airport. Laong Air, owner of the aircraft, said 14 people on board were killed, but at least 16 were rescued by passing boats
World | November 11, 2002, Monday // 00:00
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A gunman has killed five people, including two children, after entering a kibbutz in northern Israel, close to the border with the West Bank. Despite a search, security forces could not immediately locate the gunman, and they concluded that he had escaped
World | November 11, 2002, Monday // 00:00
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Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek has won the most votes in Slovenia's presidential election, according to partial official results. However he does not seem to have won enough support to avoid a second-round run-off.
World | November 11, 2002, Monday // 00:00
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Singers and actors from the Russian musical Nord-Ost have performed for the first time since Chechen gunmen burst into their theatre, taking the cast and audience hostage and leaving over 160 people dead. Tears and applause greeted the actors as they came
World | November 10, 2002, Sunday // 00:00
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Slovenia goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president. The election marks the end of an era for Slovenia, with the retirement of the man who led the country to independence from Yugoslavia.
World | November 10, 2002, Sunday // 00:00
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